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Queer YA Scrabble: The Auction Opens! (plus an Excerpt)

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:41:34-05:00June 10th, 2015|Categories: Archive, Fun Things|

The Queer YA Scrabble Giveaway is now over... but the auction is just starting! You can still get all of the fabulous prizes in Team Dragon's Prize Box-- plus some fabulous critique opportunities with editors and agents. All of the proceeds will go to the amazing organization Stonewall UK. The auction closes on June 14th-- start bidding now, and get your friends involved, too! We're hoping to raise a really solid amount to donate to Stonewall UK to help support the amazing work they're doing. Go here to bid, and take a look at all the amazing prizes you'll [...]

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Excerpt: Pukawiss The Outcast

By Nadia|2020-03-28T13:41:34-05:00June 7th, 2015|Categories: Archive, Fun Things|Tags: Fantasy, LGBTQIA, Queer Guys|

Today for Queer YA Scrabble we are bringing you a special excerpt from the novel Pukawiss The Outcast by Jay Jordan Hawke. Remember that you can find the 4 hidden letters in this post (it will be in green), and you’ll be one step closer to solving our anagram and having a chance to win a FABULOUS box of books. But first, let's find out what Pukawiss The Outcast is about... Pukawiss The Outcast (Harmony Ink Press, 2014) Goodreads Summary: "When family complications take Joshua away from his fundamentalist Christian mother and leave him with his grandfather, he finds himself immersed in [...]

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Queer YA Scrabble Author Interview: Suzanne van Rooyen

By Nadia|2020-03-28T13:41:35-05:00June 7th, 2015|Categories: Archive, Author Interview, Fun Things|Tags: Fantasy, LGBTQIA|

Continuing with Queer YA Scrabble, today we have the pleasure of bringing you an interview with author Suzanne van Rooyen. Find letter hidden in this post (it will be in green), and you’ll be one step closer to solving our anagram and having a chance to win a FABULOUS box of books. :) Author Suzanne van Rooyen Suzanne van Rooyen is an author from South Africa. She currently lives in Sweden and is busy making friends with the ghosts of her Viking ancestors. Although she has a Master’s degree in music, Suzanne prefers conjuring strange worlds and creating [...]

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Queer YA Scrabble: Boyfriends With Girlfriends by Alex Sanchez

By Nadia|2020-03-28T13:41:37-05:00June 6th, 2015|Categories: Archive, Fun Things|Tags: Bisexual, gay, lesbian, LGBTQIA, PoC, Queer Girls, Queer Guys, Realistic|

Boyfriends with Girlfriends is a LGBTQAI+ book written by Alex Sanchez and published in 2011 by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. Boyfriends with Girlfriends (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2011) What is it about? While Sergio is attracted to both girls and guys, he’s only dated girls before. Lance has always known he’s gay, but he’s never had a serious boyfriend. When they meet, there’s an instant sizzle, and they know that they’ve got something special. But will it be enough to overcome their differences? Allie has been into guys her whole life, and [...]

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Queer YA Scrabble is here!

By Nadia|2020-03-28T13:41:38-05:00June 5th, 2015|Categories: Archive, Fun Things|

Queer-YA Scrabble is an event created to support Stonewall-UK and increase awareness of LGBTQ positive YA books. Participants will hunt for letters concealed in blog posts featuring Queer YA books and then solve anagrams allowing them to compete for a chance to win a box full of great titles. Following the promotional game, another set of book-boxes will be up for bid with 100% of proceeds donated to Stonewall. The event will run from June 6th-8th, 2015 (you can find the official timeline here). We are proud to announce we are one of the hosts for the event! Other blogs who are [...]

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Searching the Aisles for Girls Kissing Girls

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:41:39-05:00May 23rd, 2015|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog, Fun Things|Tags: Other Media, Queer Girls|

by emily m. danforth It’s nearly summer, and for me that always means more time to read and write: long mornings spent at my desk followed by endless hammock-afternoons spent with a stack of novels and a pitcher of iced coffee kept close. But in our house, summer also means movie nights. Lots and lots of movie nights. (I tend to indulge my love of horror films in the summer—I save them up all year and binge in June, July, and August. Usually my wife will not watch these particular movies with me, which means I end up [...]

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Tanuja Desai Hidier’s “Dimple Lala/ GayYA Bday Party Playlist”

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:41:49-05:00May 7th, 2015|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog, Fun Things, Guest Blogs|Tags: Intersectionality, Minor Queer Characters, Other Media, PoC, Queer Girls, Realistic, South Asian|

4 original songs from Tanuja’s ‘booktrack’ albums When We Were Twins (songs based on her first novel, Born Confused) & Bombay Spleen (songs based on her new novel, sequel Bombay Blues) to celebrate GayYA’s 4th birthday! And for now, and always, I knew: Love had to be allowed in wherever, whenever, and in whatever form it took. We didn’t have to shrink to fit it, box it to casket. And even then, when we found it dying, could opt for ashing down rather than burial, scatter it to all five corners of the earth and ether. Whatever could [...]

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